Nomination Award of Daily Life

Brazil Amazon Rain Forest

Victor Englebert(U.S.A)



4¡¢ He is fastening to his waist a bird he has just shot down and plucked to keep his hands free to do more hunting. The lower vine around his waist keeps his penis up by the foreskin. A loose penis would be aggressive to women.
5¡¢Yanomami Indian woman carries plantain (cooking banana) from her forest garden. She carries her baby girl in sling made of tree bark. Yanomami women avoid sexual relations for four years after giving birth to a child. During that time, the child will accompany her everywhere. It would be impossible for her to carry or drag two children in her gathering expeditions.
10¡¢Yanomami women, sitting in the central courtyard of their doughnut-shaped yano (communal house), grate manioc over the smooth inside of a tree bark. They will prepare manioc soup for some 100 Yanomami Indians of another clan that they have invited.

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